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Programme 15 January 2010
Soojin Han was born in Korea and moved to the UK when she was 2. She began the violin at the age of 8 and entered the Yehudi Menuhin School before moving to the Purcell School to study with Felix Andrievsky. She then took lessons with Zakhar Bron in 2004. Under the close guidance of Kyung Wha Chung in her musical development, she took up her place at Oriel College, Oxford, to read music and is currently on a postgraduate course at the Royal Academy of Music.
She has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, such as the London Symphony, Poznan Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Korean Symphony, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, L'Ensemble Ricercata de Paris, and has given concerts at nearly all of the major London venues and at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Witold Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw, Adam Mickiewicz Auditorium, Poznan, Suntory Hall, Operacity and Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo. She has broadcast on Polish, Dutch and Korean radio.
Soojin won second prize as the youngest competitor (and the youngest ever top prize winner) at the Wieniawki International Violin Competition 2001 in Poland, where she was also awarded seven other special prizes including the Critics & Journalists Prize and the Polish Radio Award. She also won first prize at the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition 2002 and, most recently, at the Bayreuth International Competition. Other awards include the LSO Scholarship Competition 2002, the Musicians Benevolent Fund’s Manoug Parikian Prize 2001, the Royal Philharmonic Society's Emily Anderson Award 2002, an Allcard Award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and awards from the Martin Music Scholarships Fund, the Hattori Foundation and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.
Her love of chamber music has taken her on several occasions to participate in Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove, Cornwall. Soojin plays on a JB Guadagnini kindly lent by Mr Charles Beare in 2001.
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